The Importance Of Spiritual Experiences

A spiritual experience is an event or moment that defines or changes a person and is usually experienced within the context of the person’s faith or belief in something. There is no set place or time for a religious experience, it can be in public or private, some are even when the person isn’t even awake. Gini Brumble had her spiritual experience over the course of a year, Jaken Bautista’s was during an afternoon nap, and my own spanned about nine months. Each of these experiences showed us something, and have led each of us to where we are in our spiritual life as well as our daily life. Someone once said, religion is not a man sitting in church thinking about hunting, it’s a man hunting in the woods, admiring the works of God; much like a spiritual experience is not defined but what someone thinks but by what one …show more content…
With a small child to take care of and little relief in sight, a friend told her about a church that would help her. She said, “I walked into the little white house feeling more than humbled having to ask a complete stranger and God to help me pay the bills for me and my little one.” (Brumble) That was the moment that she truly felt loved, not love like most people think but the kind of love that gives you hope and reassures you. During this time one of Gini’s friends signed her up for a Divorce Care email, that would send her a message of encouragement every day, she go those messages every day for a year, when she started going to the church that helped her, she saw a logo for a Divorce Care class. Gini started going to the class and truly learned about God’s love and realized that what she experienced in that little white house, was a manifestation of God’s love. Today the events of that year are a distant memory but that experience not only showed Gini what her faith had only gave her glimpses of, it truly changed her life and defined who she is